Bio

Dr. William A. Bulman is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, and serves as the Director of Bronchoscopy and the Director of Interventional Bronchoscopy at New York Presbyterian Hospital – Columbia. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and he completed internships in both surgery and medicine before residency training in Internal Medicine. He served as a Chief Resident in Medicine and later completed fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Columbia.

Dr. Bulman is the course co-director for the Pulmonary Medicine Section of the first year curriculum at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is the co-director of the Clinical Research Track in the medical school’s Scholarly Projects Program. He is the medical director of the High Risk Lung Nodule Assessment Center and the medical director of Columbia Pulmonary Associates, a private practice group in Price Center for Comprehensive Chest Care. His clinical interests include Interventional Bronchoscopy and Advanced Diagnostic Bronchoscopy, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and the pulmonary complications of lung cancer. He has been a research investigator in multiple clinical trials involving bronchoscopic treatments for emphysema and studies the use of optical coherence tomography in bronchoscopic the imaging of the lung.

Bulman WA Lung Volume Reduction for the Treatment of Severe Emphysema: Past, Present and Future. Symposium Session, American College of Chest Physicians International Conference, October 2010. (Session Chair)